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Marler discovered that sharing personal injury stories gives the sharers a sense of pride and validation, while bringing them closer together. She explores how gender affects one's amount of personal injury. Males tend to have more injuries partly because of their nature and partly from society's expectations for them. Created by Kirstin Marler while enrolled in Jill Terry Rudy's English 391 class during fall semester of 2006 at Brigham Young University.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Heather Drew Gemperline for her Winter 2012 Introduction to Folklore class for Professor Jacqueline Thursby. About the spiritual purposes of African dance for the African people in modern times. Contains a cover essay, an autobiographical sketch, and Ghanaians' interviews about the dances they perform, perceptions of spirituality and dance, the religious meanings of some dances, the spiritual experiences they draw from dance, and the musician's feelings on the dance...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Dan Welte for his Fall 2010 English 392 class under Eric Eliason. About the folk group of satellite TV technicians in the Western US, more specifically the Four Corners area. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' interviews. Interviews include getting stuck underneath a customer's house and getting out via Vaseline, various retellings of this guy's experience, cat urine-soaked carpets, a drunk voicemail, falling off ladders, falling through...

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Submitted by BYU student Ben Pulse for his Winter 2011 English 391 class for Professor Eliason. About the different styles of swing dancing at BYU. Contains an autobiographical sketch, and a DVD with the informant's interview transcribed in the file. Interview includes how to swing dance, the different types of swing dance, and the BYU swing dance team.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Robyn Lung for her Winter 2011 English 392 class for Professor Eliason. About the Robyn's family role of playing Santa at the Lung family reunions and how each person interprets their role as Santa. Contains informants' interviews, a cover essay, and an autobiographical sketch. Interviews include why people think family members are chosen to be Santa, "Tufi Glaus" interpretation, "Hoochie Claus" interpretation, "Osama Claus", fun facts about Santa in the Lung family,...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Mele Bryant for her Winter 2012 English 392 class for Professor Eliason. About the choices women make when it comes to personal care and beauty remedies, and the things they retell. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' beauty remedies, from egg whites for shiny hair, coconut milk to make hair strong, bleaching hair with vinegar or lemon juice, lemon juice on freckles to lighten them, Windex, toothpaste as a deoderant and to ger rid of...

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Submitted by Tara Biggerstaff for her Winter 2012 English 392 class for Dr. Eliason. About the unique formula of dating in Utah county, specifically at BYU. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' interviews about dating rules in Utah county, such as not kissing on the first date, what makes a date (the three P's), dating friends vs. strangers, and what makes a date good.

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Submitted by BYU student Lindsey Gueller for her Fall 2010 English 392 class for Dr. Eliason. About how gift-giving has become secularized instead of being a part of the religious traditions of Christmas. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and informants' interviews about Santa's representation of secular and religious Christmas, how Americans are increasingly secularizing Christmas, things people do on Christmas and why, and memorable Christmas stories.

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Student generated paper by Clark Bishop. A series of local legends about Redginal Child who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Springville, Utah.

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Submitted in Winter Semester 2010 by BYU student Danette Day to Professor Deirdre Paulsen, oral history of Franklin D. Day, USMC concerning the Pacific Theatre. Some of the stories deal with Mormonism.